London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

London's old-school healing garden.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.